At 09:10 4/3/97 -0500, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>Could you please explain the "3D" notation you used in statements like these:
>
>>For instance, the present tense form of the complementary
>>infinitive is default after MELLOW (P[resent]=3D84; A[orist]=3D7) or
>>ARCOMAI (P=3D87; A=3D0), but after DUNAMAI (P=3D57; A=3D154) or
>>ZHTEW (P=3D3; A=3D32) the default is aorist.
>
>I have no idea how to read that.

Certain mailers insert a hexadecimal notation of the ASCII value of
certain characters occurring the text after an equal sign (=). Thus,
'=3D' means insert the character with an ASCII value of hex 3D or 61
in decimal. This character happens to be an equal sign '='.